University of Bristol

Researchers at the Bristol Trials Centre (CTEU) at the University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) are leading a new study which could set the foundations for how booster COVID-19…

Homelessness and unstable housing are associated with a substantial increase in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) acquisition risk among people who inject drugs, according to research led by the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in…

Pupils at a Bristol school became scientists for a day to understand more about how PCR testing works to diagnose for COVID-19. Four Acres Academy is one of many local schools that are taking part in a ground-breaking University of…

Research by the University of Bristol has found that the association between smoking and e-cigarette use could be explained by a broader genetic susceptibility to risk-taking.The findings imply that the genetic influences associated with…

As Director of the Interface Analysis Centre (IAC) in the School of Physics, his research expertise centres around the detection and characterisation of nuclear materials, to aid prediction of their behaviour in engineered and…

Bristol physicists are part of a team that has announced ‘tantalising’ results that potentially cannot be explained by our current laws of nature.The LHCb Collaboration at CERN has found particles not behaving the way they should…

Over the past year, up and down the UK, thousands of research and innovation projects have been publicly funded to tackle the pandemic. Researchers at the universities of Bristol, Bath and Exeter, and businesses in the South West are…

New research has revealed four million children live in a family which has lost income since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of those, 1.6 million children live in a family which has lost a third or more of its total household income,…

A project to save valuable theatre and live art records from being lost during the pandemic, has received funding from The National Archives.The grant of £25,179 will allow the University of Bristol Theatre Collection to identify…

A new centre established by the University of Bristol to help protect citizens online has created a shared data science framework to help law enforcement investigate organised crime.The white paper, published today (March 22) by REPHRAIN,…